• Awarded on: December 9, 1999

Jessica Alice Symonds (posthumous), Bear Point, N.S.
Governor General's Caring Canadian Award

For several years, Jessica Symonds was active as a volunteer fundraiser for the Children's Hospital and the Cancer Society. She was also a member of the Bear Point-Shag Harbour Auxiliary Volunteer Fire Department. Mrs. Symonds, on behalf of the local branch of the Canadian Cancer Society, spoke at various locations and events about her personal experience with cancer. Despite her illness, she never stopped putting others in the community ahead of herself.